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the travels of "Simantha" our Virgin Blue Virtual Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

ATC Panic Stations - VATPAC event 27/05/07 - Melbourne to Sydney

This is the second flight in this event (see also first flight page). With all the traffic around we swapped seats and planned for a Melbourne to Sydney 'milk run' flight.

At get E7 in Melbourne, busy conducting pre-flight tasks and checklists. We use real checklists and 2-crew operations for all of our flights. Capt Neil Brown FO Nic D'Alessandro
Taxiing to runway 34
Lining up for takeoff on runway 34. Notice the white knuckles on the throttles :)
Cruising FL330
On approach into Sydney. Lots and lots of traffic around, we were given multiple speed/altitude restrictions and vectors. We fly online in the VATSIM virtual environment so we have full ATC services, radio, and other traffic.
Sorry - didn't get any shots of the landing. It was an instrument landing down to the minima and our workload was so high there was no time for piccies!

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